Day: May 13, 2016

From Geoff Earle at The Daily Mail / 05.13.2016: Bill Clinton’s family charity foundation oversaw an unusual $2 million financial commitment to a private company whose ownership is stocked with close Clinton pals including ‘family friend’ Julie Tauber McMahon, a new bombshell report has revealed. The financial commitment came at the 2010 conference of the[…]

X-ray: NASA/CXC/GSFC/B. Williams et al; Optical: DSS; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA When the star that created this supernova remnant exploded in 1572, it was so bright that it was visible during the day. And though he wasn’t the first or only person to observe this stellar spectacle, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe wrote a book about his[…]

debate.org By Dr. John P. Jackson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Roy R. Charles Center for Academic Excellence College of William and Mary Abstract Philosophers defending evolutionary/cognitive accounts of racialism argue that cross-cultural psychological research has discovered similar patterns of racial reasoning around the globe. Such research, they hold, simultaneously supports the existence of an underlying[…]

Sheriff Eric Watson’s use of the department’s official social media pages to promote his religion and censor dissenting opinions is at the core of this lawsuit. 05/06/16, Washington, D.C. American Atheists along with a resident of Bradley County, Tennessee filed suit in federal district court in Eastern Tennessee today against Bradley County Sheriff Eric Watson[…]

By Dr. Thomas Greaves Professor of Philosophy University of East Anglia, UK 2013: 3(1) Abstract I offer a response and counter argument to J. Baird Callicott’s “Provocations” piece in Environmental Humanities, volume 2. I argue that the historical narrative that Callicott derives from Aristotle regarding the development of philosophical thought from natural philosophy to social[…]

Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief From a lecture by Dr. Frank Holt, Professor of Ancient History, University of Houston (10.24.2013) Eucratides I Coin, Gold Stater, c.171-145 BCE / Wikimedia Commons Discovering Bactria, that portion of ancient Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, as well as portions of India, was not an easy task. A discovery[…]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressing the AIPAC conference in Washington D.C. on March 21, 2016. (Photo credit: AIPAC) Hillary Clinton wants the American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world By Robert Parry /[…]

How to be there for the people you need the most By Heather Plett When my Mom was dying, my siblings and I gathered to be with her in her final days. None of us knew anything about supporting someone in her transition out of this life into the next, but we were pretty sure[…]

By Donald N. Moran By all accounts Isaac Ketcham was truly a scoundrel. What little history has recorded of his activities confirms that, although completely unintentional, and for the worst possible motives, he saved the Continental Army from certain destruction. His story begins with another rogue, one Henry Dawkins, an English born New Yorker of[…]

Nate Beeler, The Columbus Dispatch By John L. Micek / 05.13.2016 We already know Donald Trump thinks the presidency of the United States is “the ultimate reality show.” So is it really any surprise that the real estate magnate spent years posing as his own spokesman as he tried to plant favorable stories among the[…]

Sanford Biggers creates art that upends traditional narratives about topics ranging from hip hop to Buddhism to American history. Sanford Biggers Conceptual Artist Conceptual artist and TED Fellow Sanford Biggers uses painting, sculpture, video and performance to spark challenging conversations about the history and trauma of black America. Join him as he details two compelling[…]

Early music activities? PROPhilippe Teuwen By Christina Zhao / 05.12.2016 Postdoctoral Fellow University of Washington Growing up in China, I started playing piano when I was nine years old and learning English when I was 12. Later, when I was a college student, it struck me how similar language and music are to each other.[…]

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant By Stephen D. Foster, Jr. / 05.13.2016 In a strong southern drawl that makes his bigotry all the more enraging, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant attempted to defend his state’s anti-LGBT law by whining about persecution of Christians, which is something that doesn’t exist. When Bryant signed House Bill 1523 into law[…]

By Dr. Ivana Noble and Dr. Timothy Noble Professors of Theology Charles University, Prague Orthodox theology in Western Europe in the 20th century is a fascinating phenomenon. Owing to the revolution in Russia and the economic and political migrations of Orthodox believers from many other European and Middle Eastern countries, the very small Orthodox[…]